rcm EVENING PtJfiLiO LEDEPSltADELPHIAlSATimDY, 'MRCH 'W ;v l&lS u J ) ' ' ' - .--,. t M .-.5V,, -.- -r--" -., -V-w V fl' fir m - i "! is. 3 i IW m PS t.' 1 f $ i- LP ! v, tin ?.a r Si 5u.1S22: vrvitetun i ymmil , , rV SE3ES m?:n dJii U . W4 TCHKAREVA DEFIES 'll' v rfk 1 .. Members qf Battalion of i&beath, Ordered to Dis- Wrband, Fly to the Woods IS'! dnrf Tieir Leader Saves ES&awiTif. r - . t . EE: " i x nem r.rom ueain oy SmSS-; Quck Action fy iifyrmoMs Women's Fighting Unit in the Russian -Army Ceases to Exist as the Result of the Spread of BolsJievism Among the Troops THIS STARTS THE STORY In tho summer of 1917 Maria Botchkarcva formed tho Battalion of Death, a woman's llshtlng unit In tne Jiusslan army, and thus a peas ant girl stepped into tho Interna tional hall of fame. This is her story. In earlier Installments sho ties of her childhood, of the brutali ties of her married life and the real ization of her wish to become a sol dier. Sho told of battles foupht and won and of the demoralization of the army following the overthrow of tho Czar. It was desire to shame tho men Into action that caused the formation of the battalion. It only partially succeeded. The men wanted peaceond they resented all discipline. The fact that there was no boI dier'a committeo In the battalion aroused their Ire. When they started to mob tho Rlrls Botchkarcva ad dressed them, assuring them that a strict discipline was needed for Rlrla, whatever tho case might bo with men. They agreed with her and alio puts them to work. AND HERE IT CONTINUES I REQUESTED their help In cleaning out tho dugouts for my girls, and they gave It cheerfully. I dispatched an Instructor for tho battalion and by night my soldiers wero comfortably quartered. Under tho protection of sen tinels picked from tho men attached to my unit we passed a restful night. But our presence ofTered too good an opportunity for the agitators to let go by. So In the morning after break fast, as I started on my way to head quarters, a small group of insolent soldiers, not more than ten In number, cut my path, heaping Insults upon me. In a few minutes tho ten ruffians were Increased to twenty, thirty, fifty a hundred. I tried to parry their scoffs and threats, but made no head way. In ten minutes I was almost surrounded by several hundred of these uniformed rogues. "What do you want with me?" I cried out, losing patience. "We want to disband your battalion. We want you to surrender all the rifles to us." Now there can hardly bo a greater dishonor for a soldier than to sur render his arms without a fight. How ever, my girls know that I hated to lose my life at tho hands of a mob. When they heard of tho demand of ; Subject to Chang MONDAY AMIAMDIIA ts) 12th, Morris A Pasayunk Av. Loula Tlennlson tn Speedy Mtade AFOIXO 62(1 and Thompson Ste. ) Lockwood and Allison in The Web of intrliue AKOADIA Chetnut below 16th St. () Klfll Ferguson in The Marriage l'rlce BKLMONT 626 abovo Market St. Gladys lyeslle In Miss Dulcia From Dlxlo Mf.TiRnmn () Clara K. Cheatlns I- Broad ft Susquehanna Ave. .&-". BKOAIJWAY (a) J" Broad St. and Snyder Ave. Fred Stone in Johnny, Get Your Oun CEDAR 60th St. and Cedar Ave. Dustln The CHESTNUT HILL 833) Germantown Ave. (a) Nazimova In Kin tor Ee COLONIAL . . Ethel Clayton In Maggie Pepper Qui. and Mapiewooa Avei. COLISEUM Market bet. II B. Walthall In The False Faces S9th and 80th. () Lite of Our Saviour Main St.. Manayvnk. EURKKA 40th and Market Sta. Mary Miles Mlnter in The Amazing Impostor TAMILY 1811 Market St. () Clara K. Cheating FA1BMOCNT 2ath St. and Qlrard Ave. () Louise Huff In Crook of Dreams k-KANKFOKD 4T1S Frankford Ave. Star Cast In The Common Cause MTII ST. TIIEATIIE Below gpructi 8t. () Alice Urady In The World to Llvo In GREAT NORTHKRN llroad St. at Krle Ave. () Florence Wlvs UirKBIAL ,j t 0th and 'Walnut Bta. () Grace Valentine in Unchastened Woman JH<' JEFFERSON Bert The iSbi ,.?2'h and Dauphin Ma. Jtrsmo Wan-en Kerrigan In Come Again. Smith Pauline Frederick In Paid In Full , .'Front St. and Qlrard Ave. JLEADEB () 41st ana Iancaeter Ave. UBEOTY ) Carlyle Hit uroaa ana woiumoia Ave. TACI1.1T Blllle Burke in Good Gracious Annabelle H02d and Locust St. MARKET AT. TllUATBE (a) Carlyle Hit gas aiaricet st. t MODEL () Bert i&r.. , NIXOK J. W. Come s: '. ----v-- . . . . wil S2iv "0:!a na "UII,t " OVEttllEOOK (a) Theda Bara In The She Devil PALACE ,'t J 214 Market St. (a) W. S. Hart In The Poppy CJrl'a Husband PARK vItldg Av. & Dauphin St. Shirley Mason In The Winning Qirl rXAZA Broad and Porter Rte. (a) Wallace The TKINCESS 1018 Market St. (a) Mae Murray In Tha Scarlet Shadow (a) Anna The Way " Market St. below 17th. I"P" aiAivn , t , (a) IJla Leo tn Puppy Love 2i Jtn. at Jmpnnocaen. lS.. ' 'sivni.i Fred Stone in Johnny. Pet Tour Gun Ethel Clayton in Maggie Pepper flwjnr -B-i-r- a . I EH. ii j Oitt anu Di,avi.i aim NSKct 8t. belw Tth. (a) ivey (a) Theda The 1 Maract oc. 4WT.KY (a) Griffith's The Girl Who Stayed at Home lyjiataei aow mm I- T . t m. AH Blllle Burkv In Good Oracloua. Annabello Ave. at Venango. IA William Farnum In The Man Hunter lb' and Uarktt BIm. ALLEGHENY tt. and .lleghtny Ave, Jack'PICkford Freckler r tJEaM t. AMantla rllr (ll Florcnce Wives Mill Celenlal Theatra fthf MwatrM marked () obtain rjtm AND GIRLS HA t ' sWlv' R . k?'jf jVts )Eimve TiBtf tHiTuNMjL l rylPiwJTTiBM SHHsawwDfl One of the many cm'unipnienls of the Woman's Itattalion oi Death the crowd they all came out with rifles Krasnoyo Sclo. Then I called for a i wero on the same road and sent a In hand. volunteer from among the instructors couplo of horsemen to overtake us. I inado a couplo of efforts to argue, to take earn of our battle flag under ' T',VJ horienle. course, returned but It was apparent that tho men t-anio aih tint l,n umil.i ,lpf..i it t i,i Ut" cmpty Imnds- with the purpose fixed in their minds , ' , h ""lid defend It to lis, ..g,)0 ,8 R wltch, many f,oW,crs by propagandists. They would not ir-i u,iUh- Accompanied by three other in- Miook their heads with superstitious ceuo and finally cut mo short by glln me three minutes to decidf. One of llio ringleaders stood then-, with .1 watch in hand, counting tho time. Thoso wero indescribably agonizing moments. "I would rather advance against an cntiro German army than surrender arms to theso HolMievik scoundrels," I thought. "Hut it Is not my llf.j unlv that Is nt stake. Everything Is lost anyhow. They say that peace has been declared already. H.ivo I a right to play with the lives of my girls? Hut, Holy Mother, how can I a soldier trim to my oath and loyal to my conn try, order the surrender of my bat talion's arms without a fight"" The three minutes were up. I had arrived at no decision. Still I mounted the speaker's bench. Thero was n gen eral quiet. The crowd of course ex pected my capitulation. My girls waited in great tension for their Natchalnik's orders. My he.u t throbbed violently as my mind still groped for a solution. "Shoot!" I suddenly shouted at the top of my voice to tho girls. Tho men wero so surprised that for a moment they remained petrified. They wero unarmed A vollev from 200 rifles went un Into , Ilr P I th The crowd dispersed in all dlrec- tions. My order almost drove the men madmen, scouring the neighborhood, insane with rage. They ran for their I but theiff was no sign of us. They barracks after weapons, threatening could not reallzo that in such a brief to return and wipe us all out. space of time the battalion had been The real crisis now arose. Thero marrht-d away with all tho equipment, was no question that the mob would 1 "The witch!" thev shouted ".She return, several times stronger, and ,nust have spirited them nuav." tear us to pieces. A decision had to But this did not seem a plausible be arrived at and carried out instantly, explanation to the cooler heads. They It would take not mom than ten mln-1 telephoned to headquarters, but re utes for the men to come back. If we reived an answer of complete nston did not escape It was'certain death. ishment. Nobody there knew of my "In five minutes the battalion shall sudden withdrawal. Tho mob started be ready to march!" I thundered. I ' along tho road to Krasnoye Selo and sent one of my instructors to the bar- soon overtook my supply wagons, racks, to mix with the crowd and 1 which were in chargo of old soldiers, later report to me in tho woods on ' These bald tli.it they had received or tho mob's activity. Simultaneuosly ders to leavo for Kr.isnoe, and they I directed the supply detachment to I left ignorant of tho movements of the follow the road In tho direction of I battalion. The mob decided that we SEE ANNOUNCEMENT DAILY IN THE PUBLIC LEDGER AND EVENIMG PUBLIC PHOTOPLAY PRESENTATIONS FOR WEEK OF MARCH 31 TO APRIL ,TUESDAY , 1- Ijuls Bennlson In ypeeJy Mearte Bessie Ilarrlacula in A Trick ot F.ite Elsie Terguson In Tho Marriage Price Glndyn Ik1Io In Miss Dulcle From Dixie Clara K. Tounit in Cheating Cheatero Toune in Cheaters Fred Stone In Fred Johnn. Get Vour Gun Johnny Farnum in Virginian Shlrlev Mason in The Winning Girl It. It. The Alice Brartv In Mho Her ine inaeaiructuiu .o Ethel Clavton In Maggie Pepper H B Walthall In The False Faces Life ot Our Saviour Dorothy Dalton in Hard Boiled Toung In Cheatcrn btar Cast In The Unbeliever Pauline Frederick in Daughter of Old South Clara K. Cheatlnn Star Cast In Tho Common Cause Alice Brady In The World to Live In Iteed In ot Men Florence Reed in Wives of Men Grace Valentine In U.ichastcned Woman Kvehn Tempest Lytell in Spender Montague I.ove In The Hand Invisible J I. D. The Anita. Stewart In From Headquarters Pauline Trederlck In Paid in Full Blackwell In or Miss Anita Stewart In Virtuous Wives Blilie Burke in Good Gracious Annabelle Blackwell In or Miss Charles Ray In The Girl Dodcer Lytell In Faith Anita Stewart In Virtuous Wives Kerrigan In Again. Smith 1 W. TCcrrlB-an In Come Again, Smith J. W. Come Edith Storey In As the Sun Went Down W. S. Hart In The Poppy Girl's Husband W. S Poppy Fred Stone In Johnny, Oet Tour Gun John Barrymorc in Here Comes the Bride Reld In Dub Girl Viola Dana In Satan, Junior Go Ntlsaon In of the Strong Anna Nllason tn The Way of the Strong Mae Allison ln Peggy Does Her Darndett Vivian Saw Fred Stone ln Johnny, Get Your Gun Madge Kennedy ln Day Dreams Bara In Light Bert Lytell In Tha Blind Man's Eyes Griffith's The Girl Who Stayed ut Horns Blllle Uurku In Good Gracious. Annabelle William Farnum In Tha Man Hunter Harry Carey In Hell Bent Reed In of Men rnnnnpM Tnlmadre In Romanco and Arabella pictures through Th STANLEY. Bookins MADDENED VE TO USE THEIR RIFLES lruclor., Ho Mas sent ahead Mith the fhig. Ml tills u.im done in less than flvo minutes, it was no ordinary fe.it for a military unit to form in lull march- ng formation in thai space of time. "uk t,t sl' iu ii. i sfiiL um. Mfuau after another Into the woods, leaving win ,m- mi niuui iiiiMcii. i had as our destination u certain clearing in the woods, seven versts deep. This distance we covered at a neck breaking pace. I knewUhut tho i infuriated men would luko the road in pursuing us and T ordeied tho bat talion through the thick of the woods. Thero wen- few of us vvhc did not trip on the way several times. Our uni forms were torn by thorns and bi am bles, and mnny of us had lacerated legs and arm. There was llttlo time for dressing the wounds. A couple of houis later, after reach ing tln dealing, wo heaui a distant whistle, the signal of the instructor ! had left behind. He was hilarious over his experience, and In spite of our precarious position wo enjoyed his story immensely. The mob, it appeared, returned, as we had anticipated, to our billets, armed to the teeth. It was in a fero ,'ius moo1 and ruhhed into the dug-1 outs. Tho men worn thunderstruck upon discovering that the dugouts wero deserted! Thcv ran about like WEDNESDAY Louis Hennlson in tteedv Aledda Thpda Tiara In The Darlins of IMria VAl I-Vraunon In Tho Mairt.iff' Prlco Tauline Frpdtrick In Sold Nazimova- In Tos of Fate THURSDAY VnllRpp Held In Allan Miko Moran Kdilh Storrv in As the Sun Went Down Klsin iVrKUKon In The iinrrlase Price ThH Pauline Frrrterlclt In Sold Henry ll Walthall In I Henry B VValtr The False K.icei "The False n Stono in Florence Herd In Wivps of Men If n. Walthall In Tho Paine Faces Georee vanish In I'll feny t-o Get Your Gun I Walthall in False Faces Allison in Inspiration Ethel Clavton in Mfaggle Pepper I Olfdvs i.,ii, in Miss Dulcle From Dixie Ethel Clajton In Maggie Pepper Uerladlne Foirar In I'armen Alice Bradv in The Hollow of Her Hand Ltre Hradi In The ICillow of Hej- Hand Wlllam S Hart In Bred of Men Anita Stcnart In From Headquarters Sessue Haakawa in The Temple of the Dusk Harrv Carey in A Fight for Love Toung in Cheaters William S Bart in Breed of Men William Hart In Bred of lien William Hart In Breed of Men Conatance Talmadge in The Lesson Theda Ilara The Darling of Paris Theda Bara in Salome Kvelsn On-el. In Tempeft ami Sunshine , n Mine's Old Wives for Ntvr Florence Keed in Wives of Men Greeley In nnd .Sunshine Walthall in False Faies Pauline Frederick In The Eternal City D. W CrllTlth'H A Ro mance of Happy Valley Shlrlev Mason in The Winning Girl h'r1. Mason in The Winning Girl Allr-e Tlrn.lu 1 Llla Lee In Puppy I.ove The Indestructible Wife Blllle Burke In Oood Gracious Annabelle Wnllnco Reld in Alius Vllke Moran Clara K Young ln Cheating Cheaters If H. Walthall In The False rapes Anita Stewart In Virtuous Wives Mitchell I.,, n Llfe'B Greatest Problem "Kerrigan in Again, Smith She Lnvee a Sailor Special Comedy Peggv Hjland in The Girl With No IlegretB Alice Brady In The World to Live in Hart In The Girl's Husbund W 8 Hart In The Poppy Girl's Husband Harold I.ockvo3 in The Great Romance William Farnum In For Freedom Star Cat In With No Regrets Clara K. Young In Cheating Cheaters Tom Moore In West. Young Man Montague Love In The Hand Invisible Anna Nilsaon In The Way of the Strong Charles Buy In Tho Sheriff's Son Martin In Never Such a Girl Ethel Clavton In Maggie Pepper The Dorothy IJaiton In Extravagance Dorothy Dalton in Extravagance Louis Bennison In Sandy Burke of V Bar U .Harry Carey In A tight for Love Marguerite Marsh In Conquered Hearts June Elvldge Tho Love Defender Griffith's The Girl Who Stayed at Home Griffith's The Girl Who Stayed at Home Blllle r.urlre In Good Grac'ous, Annabelle Wallace Held in Alias Mike Moran William Farnum In The Man Hunter William Farnum In The Man Hunter Norma Talmarigo in Tne Heart of Wetona Corlnne arlffltha In The Olrl Question Gladys Brockell In The Forbidden Room Anita Stewart In From Headquarters Corporation, which Is a guarantee, oi early MOB awe, "A witch, veritably: conlirmcd oth- era, with uneasiness'. Tho four men with our flag lost I tltnlt H'tlU It, tlm -...-.. ..1.. r.,,.1 .rw.l.itv that tlny (ild ot comt, u T j,ent out ubout twenty girls and instructors to hen, 8 f Thnv lr flnSllv .Ita Next vvT, had to Jt n to ucl J , ..r i I'" M 1? n. looK IOC covered. , wuii mo supply wagons, and man- aged to bring then, to our camp. Ono tills was accomplished wo wero tectlon o How to get away In safety, Molodechno was not to bo consid ered. Tho next station was also a dangeroui place, as our pursuers had warned the garrison thero of our ap proach and requested that we be dealt with swiftly. Tho piospects wero far from cheerful. I decided to get into secret communication, through tho in structors, with th,o commandant of Molodechno. ' forest for a Wo camped in tho couplo of d.iyi? till the commandant found an opportunity to slip out ana come to see us. We held a conference, i .seeking a wav out of the dilemma. It was agieed upon thut tho career of tho battalion was ended and.noth-j ing remained but to disband It. Tlio problem was, how. Tho commandant suggested that he prorure women's garments for the girls and let them return home. Tho plan did not strike me as prac tical. It was hardly possible to ob tain nearly 200 costumes for us in a day or two. It might, therefore, con sume a couple of weeks to disband tho battalion, which would not bo ad visable. I proposed a. different scheme, iiamelv. to dischariro the crlrls singly and direct them to a score of ' scattered stations and villages. This, plan was adopted, as it did not seem diillcult for individual members of the battalion to board trains or obtain ve hicles in the neighboring villages and get away. it took a day or so for tho com mandant to provide tho necessary doc- LEDGER S FRIDAY SATURDAY Wallace Held In Allan MIKs Moran Wallace Held In Allan .Mlko Moran Mae MarMh in Bondage of Barbara r,"'n,' Var"uin I" Tim Broken Law nKJf'4, Ferguson In The Marriage Price Llla Lea in Puppy Lovo Klsl KerKUSon In Th Miirrlane Price T.ila Leo in Puppy l.oo Walthall In Alice Bradv in rhe Indestructible wife Florence Reed in Vlves of Men Pauline Frederick m I'ald in Full aces Florence Heed in Wlv s of Men airly well established behind tho pro- n,-v l,eon, tmull "u""r . ' JL t- """, S"S' i't " .. 'A" . .i .. , .. . .... : nr ti w fYiw h 'in iimerii-uuiem wiiiviii iw n uouuv, .-iiiun ui ine wiicKem. iiieru wis, i., . BnlHf nf his mvt. muntrv which has niv one ouestion conrrontinc us: ' Pauline Frederick In Paid in Full Vivian Marlln In Neer Raw Kuih tt Girl Belle of N'eu- Vnr Glnds Leslie in Miss Dulcle From Dixie Mlss Duioie From Dixie Pauline Frederick In Paid In Full Pauline Frede-0, , , 1'a'd. In Full May Allison- tn IVmrv Does Her Parade" . .Mrs. WlircH f the Cnhbaife Patch Mae Marsh lu Hidden Fires Mrs Charles Chaplin in Borrovwd Clothes Eesfde Barrlcale in Hearts Asleep 'WIlliEni Hnssel In Brass Buttons Mitchell LewlB in Children of Banishment The Wlnnlna- oiri Innlns: Girl Clara K Young in Cheating Cheaters Cheating Cheater" Geraldlne FarrarTT Shadows Geraldlne Farrar In Shadows Theda B'ira In Salomo Tlied nra in Salomo Viola Dana Satan Jr. Harry Carev 1,, A right for LuVe Romance of Taran v...noii(. vva Ker in Every Mother's Soli ineclal Can hi The Silent Wder Star Cast in The Crown Jvels Bryant Wa unburn in Poor Boob , """"' vvaMhi,.,rn ln uut ion Pauline Frederick in Paid in Full Kthel rtn.. . I ff.'..,1 ' I "-"'" veapons 1 Wallae- Held in AllaH Mike Moran Wallace Held in Alias Mlk" Moran Special Comedy" PlaPB tT F- Bert Lvtell In The Blind Man's Eyes Theda Bara ln Salome She Loves a Snllor Special Comedy Mrs Charles Chaplin ln When a Girl Ivvea Cheating cneafer' W S Hart In The Poppy Girl's Husband vv H lr... Poppy birp.ifl.1,,, F. X. Bushmnn ln Poor Rich Man Allro nra.lv 1 or I'-a'Jcaiion 10 grant an increase or The Indestructible wife ' Balary to he sixty-one teachers of the JTT T7 I five-grade public schools and the high Hard fo'l'ied '" sch001 at Col'ingswood N. J., the Teach- I ers' Club drafted resolutions petitioning Hon"!)"1?, "?nnlon in 1 the Board of Education to call a public nanay uurke of uUa,i-) .m,inr on April 4 for the pur Charles Rav in pose of presenting their cause to the The Sheriff's Son public and having a special election ClaraKlmbairYounTTnl0" tU 'uestlon' Carlvle Ifiackwell In Hit or' -Miss Harold Lockwood In The Great Romanco Charles Bay In The Sheriff's Son ll" Hrsdv In Indeatructlble.Wlfe Clara K. Young In Cheating Cheaters Clara K. Young In Cheating Cheate a Gladve Leslie In Miss Duhle From Dlllo William Desmond In The Trodlgal Lla r Pauline Frederick in Paid In Full Griffith' The Girl Who 8Udat Home Wallace Held In Alias Mlko Moran William Farnum ln" Tbe Man Hunter Alice Joyce In The Lion and the Moure Anna Nllsson In The Way of the Strong H. 11. Walthall In Tho Fulse Face Griffith's The Girl Who Staved at Homt Wallace Reld In Alias' Mike Moran William Farnum' la The Man Hunter Alice Joyce In The Lion and the Mouse Anita Stewart In -From Headquarteig showing of the finest productions. Ail uments and -funds for all-th glrfs. Then the leaving began. Every ten or fifteen minutes a girl was sent away, now In one direction, now In tho opposite. It was a pitiful flnalo to a heroic chapter In the history of Rus sian womanhood. Tho battalion had struggled gallantly to stem tho tide of destruction and Ignorance. But the tide was too mighty. It had swamped all that wafl-Rdod and noblo In Russia, Russia herself seemed wrecked for-i over In that maelstrom of unbrmiea passions, Ono did not want to live, There remained only tho honor and satisfaction of going down with all that had'been upright In the courftry. Everything seemed upsldo down. Thcro was no friendship, only hatred. Tho unselfishness of tho days when Czarlsm was overthrown now, after the fall of Kercnsky, had given way to a wavo of greed and revenge. Every soldier, every peasant and workman saw rod. They all hunted phantom bourgeois, bloodsuckers, exploiters. When freedom was first born there was universal brotherhood and Joy. Now Intolerance and petty covetous ness reigned supreme. As I kissed my girls good-hy, ex changing blesshiBfl, my heart quivered with emotion. What had I not hoped from thfs'battallon Hut ns I searched my soul I could find llttlo to regret. I had done my duty by mv country. Perhaps It was too rash for mo to Imatrlno that this handful tt women could save tho army from disruption A-j .. t ...u i .innn In tbnt ov. And yet I was not alone in i that x- pectatlon. Thero was a . tlmo when Brtis'Uov and Kerensky thought that self-sacrlflclng women would shame the men. But tho men knew no shame. Mv elrls had departed. I aiono re malned of the battalion, wim several , whch happily was and Is unknown to of tho instructors. In tho evening 1 1 m0Bt unhyphenated Americans. Mr. made mv way to the road where an , j,'UCRSic-B ncro itUdolf Dohmer. Is an ln automoblle was waiting to smuggle me Ftanco 0f th0 conflict with Internal Prus- away. The commanaani nua uinum i for me to go to Petrograd under the personal convoy of two members f tho nrmv rnmmltteo. Thcv wero to join mo ut the train. Tho peril lav In Hldden I the journey to tne siauon " ,,oUom of U J "" dr,V " the railway, where the two commit- teemen took me under their pro ectlon. i"""."' .. . " ,."; . !, iii. I ' ''' Sl"u,..u "hi e ' "e ot """5. ""V .,.t..U .i,- -V GET $1000 FOR GRIP VICTIMS Emergency Aid Aides Collect Sum at I'cnn for Orphans Uler a two da's campaign waged v,,' irht Emergency Aid Aides at the 1'nlverslty or l'eiins.vivuiuu, i-uucuum i funds for tho relief of the fatherless children and widows of influenza vie- l'ennsyivania, cuuetwns i thus, the net returns ami. u.h'". buiuuu ,, ... ,,arv Jiooo. i . turna for yesterday, amounting , bout ,500i represented the contribu- received by four booths in tho Mrdlra1i Veterinary. I- and Archl- tecUjral buildings. Althougl) tho aim f the children's bure " A which had " , s" 53000 ofll bureau ot tne Kmer- the collection In liund was 53000, omciais are consiu- erablv gratified by the returns. Each contributor during the two days received : ' ' ',.,., I -, ,. , ' Mrs. John Wanamaker, 3d, chairman , of the children's bureau, superintended the drive. Emergency Aid Aides who I assisted were Miss Dorrls Dexter, Miss Elizabeth Gribbel, Miss Louise Brown, Mrs. Mingo, Miss Einl'y Kullmore, Miss Natalie Dav Is, Jilts victoria l-iavls and , Miss Edith Mull, nRIVF FAD TRAIN EIEVATHPC magnet that draws the enemy consp.ra IJKlVfc rUK llKAlN CLbYAlUnj iters. His daughter, a typical American Commercial Exchange Strives to I Awaken Interest in Port ' WvahXIl lfliercf.1 in ton delDhln. I ..m vum-i in Linn uiuuu ui me ium- a young officer and a queer cuup. juuhb, merclal Kxchange through a special com- WjnUny an inventor and a connoisseur mlttPP to awaken Interest ln the need 1eJ, ',',''' ,hnUA record clorlouslv for additional grain elevators In l'hlla- hi many things, vvhoserecoru glorious y .. .iv , 1.. 1...1 n.i 1... 41.. n A special effort Is to be made to in- and wins tho girl, crease the capacity of tho port Rich-1 'Mr. Mactiratli weaves his skeins of mond elevators of the Philadelphia ind k,., mvsterv and patriotism into a sub Reading Railway from. 1,000,000 bushels i,',,, national fabTlc. To divulge the to doublet that amount. The special committee, of which ex Presldtnt Louhi !. draff, of the Com mercial Exchange, Is chairman, nnd which Is composed in addition to Mr. Graff ot George K Omerly. William W. Richardson, (leorge W. Warner. C. II. Bell, l-'rank W. Miller and M. K. Bar ringer, has already taken up the matter with tho Philadelphia and Reading Rail way. It is particularly desired to Increase the capacity of the elevators at Port Richmond. 5000 TO SEEK CHURCH PLEDGES Whirlwind Finio'' to P. E. 'Every. Member' ainpaiirn Nearly 25,000 homes of members of the Protestant Kplrcopal Church throughout the dlocebo of Pennsylvania ...ill ia iuitam inmnrrnw in inp nvprv- member canvass which marks the close I OI tne every-iuruiuci i:uiui'iib!i. I Five thousand men and women wllj conduct the canvass between tho hours I of 2 and 7 o'clock tomorrow. They will I carry pledge card") anil obtain written ! pledges from every Kplscopallan to en I gago In various definite forms i.f Chris i tlan service, Including a pledge to con tribute a stipulated amount each week toward the work of the Church. Tn nnrlshes where every communicant cannot be reached tomorrow the every member canvass will continue next weelc. Bishop Rhlnelander expects that a great Impetus will he given to church work as a result of the canvass. 'BUTTS,' NOT COIN, HIS WEALTH Soldier Writes Mother of "Hard, Hard Lesson" Over There "I've been In some places where a million dollars wasn't worth as much as a cigarette butt," Sn wrntfi Private Albert- T. Lvncll. of the 310th Field Hospital, 305th Sanitary 1 Train, to his mother. I Lynch went on to describe a day when he and a friend brought in a wounded Knldier from tho First Recrlment of Cold C!t.mn. Cn.rrtu nlia tt Vi A irinttt ftlTTinllR li" ""." """"" "" " V." " .I .VY"- uruian commands, vvitn no iikiu w I cept that of the star sneiiSi they car ried the wounded man many miles to th regimental ad post. "The whole experience has been a hard hard lesson, but a good one," wrota Lynch. His home ln this city Is with his parents, at 1318 South Fifty-first street Oile brother, Walter, Is still abroad with tho Nineteenth Railway Knglneers. and another, Harry J Is In Belgium with tho Canadian forces. Collingswood Teachers Kick Following the refusal of the Board bwjost Trare Book $2.50 NET M0TOT,YARD&CO.,NEWY0iai SOME INTERESTING SPRING NO VELS THE GERMAN STRAIN A Novel of the Elimination of Kultur From a German-American Will what's bred In the bone Invarla bly and Inevitably .outcrop In the na. turo of nn Individual? Will the devel opment of the soul under new lnsplra' tlons submerge ancient racial traits? This conflict between heredity and en vlronment Is tho problem propounded and wrought out by Newton A. Fuesslo In his novel of German-American life and character entitled "The Flail." An swers to these questions answer one of the great questions of the period of re construction Into which we are now plunged after the war the problem of Americanism. Keconstltutlon of tm poo. pie Into national solidarity Is one of the phases of reconstruction, as Im portant in every way as tho Industrial, economic and commercial factors. Will the American-born children of German born parents evidence true Amtrlcnn- ism or clevolop a throwback to Kultur? Before tho war thero Was enough .and to spare of Prussian propaganda and even of "direct action" to startle and sadden tho genulno American, who had no way or estimating tho essential loy J ' persons oi uerman derivation f country entered tho war. This .,, fl,,n! Ai.n Institutions and Ideals which was heart- cnlng. But this loyalty was attained and displayed at h.e cost of grtat mental and spiritual struggle In many instances was born out of a travail of soul manlsm and the triumph for American ism. Son of German parents, reared In a Teuton ridden community from boy hood, he has felt the hold of tha Hun nti liln mlnri nrwl lipflrt. ITn nates dlf- ferences between his Impulses and those of hte BCnUl" c.ltclleH hmscll potlk'. in his. American friends. He himself using a sort of "Macht- buslness career. Ho real- r. " " ,." J" ",..". ..;:.";. ...v, " " J"VS' Y.l.. . w: '.".'": .". ."' I "" Z"Z.t" Z the touched Him. How deeply ho and his like have been affected by Americanism, how he becomes all-Amerlcan, as so many like him became, Is made concrete In this interesting and well-written novel. TUB FLAII,. Hy Newlon A. FueBale. New New YorK! Moffat. Yard Co. $1.80. , t T .,, .. A Harold MacGratll 'Thriller The ,al)el ..tnrliler" applied to a novel usualiy implies melodramatic plot and , .i.i n. .,, .mnr,mn Th ,))ot of HaroM MacGrath's newest novel. .T),e Private Wire to Washington," is theatrical. If you w 11', though sometimes rlsmg to the dramatic, but it is also an unusually well-wrlttaen and designed story. The characters are not mere pup- pets moved by strings to and in sensa- tionai situations, iney arc icu. uiai and blood persons with differentiation of mood and Impulse. The climaxes., while sensational, are not manufactured sen- satlon for sensation's sake ; they arise naturaliy and bponta'neoualy out of the dcnelopment of tho story, The Htory has to do with a baffling py myBtery centering about Ivong Island Hound and New York city. A loyal American, a man of culture, charm, Htiindlng and distinction, who nas given ail his powers and resources to impor tant work for the government, Is tho girl, beautiful, patriotic and able to take care of herself, figures largely not only ln th mystery, but as the center of the ,,.,1tfiii invo Interest, which involved delightful lovo interest, which hive redeems lilm rrpm cnarso i,JUt nf Urn mvstery. blended of U-boat, alrpane and Secret Kervlco would be to ruin suspenso for tho reader and to no good puipose. THE PHIVATB WIBE TO WASHINGTON. By Harold MarUrath, & Bros. $1.35. New York; Harper What a Daredevil Did The changes wrought by science In modern warfare are well shown by Capt. A. P. Corcoran In his "Daredevil of the Army." 'He entered the British army at the outbreak of the war and was made one of the dispatch riders of the mqtorcyele dispatch corns, and elves an Instructive recount of his duties in this new branch of the hervlce. One of the dispatches he carried through after six men had been killed ln the attempt. Promoted to the rank of signal officer, h's principal work was superintending the laying of cables for telephonic com munication, both behind and on the line, the average rate being about six miles an hour. Tho establishment of wireless telephonlo communication with the front was his last duty, and he shows very clearly Us remarkable success. There are many vivid pictures of his experiences, the dangers which he encountered being shown by the fact that out of his unit of fifty cable layers forty were killed. Many humorous touches add Interest to his unusual book. tiir tiatitcdevil, OF THE ARMY. Ex periences of a "Buzzer" and Dispatch Rider. By Captain A. P. Corcoran. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Jl.ou. Crammed with adventure William MacLeod Raine A romance of Arizona, by the author of "The Sheriff's Son." Frontispiece, $1.50 net. At all bookstores Houghton Mifflin Company 1 u ny ran mill mimiiiiniii Written with all the ap peal of "Kazan," this tale of two orphans of the wild, a dog-pup and n hear-cub, Is one no animal lover can afford to rolas. The primitive In nature, human and animal, Is treated ln true, realistic. Curwood fashion. Net 91.58 at all bookstore!.. Doubleday, Page & Co. New York UL Blague, idiii A Man II By A MODERN FAUN HITS THE ROCKS Sophia Kerr Pictures Fast-Living x umigcr oet ire 1 no Sec-Saw" Harleth Crossey. hero of "Tho See Saw, If Sophie Kerr's new novel can b said to have a hero, Is a modern faun. He certainly Is not of heroic mold or disposition, a'though he Is the hero of Marcla Crossey's romanco and of her life. Somebody says of him, "He Is as self-willed ao a shooting" star and about as uncomfortable about the house." His boyish Irresponsibility and InBouclance are charming exteriorly, but essentially they are grounded In selfishness, self-will and 'self-Indulgence. Marcla is quite a different type gay, but with proper reserve; mild, but not without decision; sound nnd firm In her principles', very maternal In Instinct and deeply In love with her carcfreo spouse. It Is this maternal Instinct that makes her excuse Harleth's Inconslderatlon and later his escapades till they wax too considerable. She makes all tho con cessions, compromises and adjustments that lteep their lives off tho shoals from tlmo to time. And then their craft strikes the rocks. Again It Is maternal Instinct that Intervenes this tlmo to protect her young' son. Harleth's Infatuation for one of her Intimate friends forces d Ivorce upon "lu " 's not mi ne loses Marcla and marries the other woman that he discovers the exceeding value of the love ho has thrown away. Life with tho mobile, conscienceless Leila proves but a fenst of husks. Through flcklo Leila's Initiative, following an accident and the discovery of her own love for a profes sional woman-chaser, comes an oppor tunity for the repentant and sobered Harleth to seek forgiveness and recon ciliation. As for Marcla, shq still loves, always has loved, him. "I have always been your wife, whatever hnppened," Bhe says. Out of this material Miss Kerr has developed a story revealing a good deal of the frivolity, lack of Ideals and low moral conceptions of the majority 'of tho fast-living, pleasure-seeking, money-mad "younger set." They are a sad, bad lot as Miss Kerr pictures them. But not uninteresting 1 THE SEC-SAW. By Sophie Kerr. Garden City N. Y.j Doubletfay. Pago & Co. J1.00. Not So Baffling, but Clever According to the slip cover which en wraps "The Web," Frederic Arnold Kummer's spy-story: "The verdict of the professional reader who never thought her opinion would be seen by half a dozen people, was this: 'It Is a rattling good spy story, and I confess I never suspected how tho story was going to end.' " Reviewers who have to read dozens of spy stories were not bo much In tho dark as .d the real In wardness of the experience of tho young American who became a German spy. Possibly many readers who Bee the an nouncement on the slip cover vvl'l bo Im pelled to "dope out" the'mystery In ad vance after reading a chapter or two. and check off their sagacity at the finis. At any rate, before they como to tints they will bo enmeshed In the network of Intrigue which forms Mr. Kummer's plot, for the publishers' reader was right when sho called "The Web" a "rattling good spy story." Thero Is no reason for astute reviewers, to disclose the workings of the plot; let It suffice for them to say that It Is Intricate, full of action and clever ln Its uso of suspense. THE WEB. By Trederlo Arnold Kummer. New York: ,tQ :t,uijr iumpauy, l.OU, Honors for Locke In recognition of his work on "The Book of Belgium's Gratitude." William J. Locke has been made "Chevalier de I'Orde de la Courrone" by the King of the Belgians, and Mrs. Locks hao received the Medaille de la Relne Elisabeth, as a token of gratitude for turning her house Into a convalescent home for Belgian soldiers. 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